Toy-Like Robot Could Revolutionize NASAs Planetary Explorations

NASA plans to use a toddler's toy robot designed for "sensory exploration" to explore something else -- planets. Yes, you read that right. The robot, which looks like a lattice of cables, rods and beads could be NASA's future rover.

At least that's the idea the space agency is working on at a lab in Silicon Valley, Calif., under its Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.

"The components are very simple," Adrian Agogino, a NASA engineer, told the the BBC. "Theyre just rods and cables connected together, and rods never connect to rods and cables never connect to cables. A child can hit themselves over the head with it and they wont get hurt. That happens to be great for what we wan…
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